Services

Amazon provides many different cloud services here is a
quick overview what I will be covering in this document. (These are a subset of all of Amazons AWS
offerings at the time of this writing)

·S3

·EC2

oAMI

oEBS

oSnapshots

oElastic
IP

oElastic
Load Balancers

oSecurity

oMonitoring

·RDS Database

oMySQL

oOracle

oMonitoring

·Route 53

·Dynamo DB (beta)

·Storage Gateway (beta)

Amazon AWS

Before I get into specific services I will go over some
overall descriptions of Amazon AWS facilities and developer/admin tools.

Facilities

Amazon AWS has several data centers located in unique
geographical locations. This is a
current list of where their data centers are located.

1.us-east-1 US East-1 (Virginia)

2.us-west-1 US West-1 (North California)

3.us-west-2 US West-2 (Oregon)

4.eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)

5.sa-east-1 SA (South America/ Sao Paulo)

6.ap-northeast-1 Asia-Pacific (Tokyo)

7.ap-southeast-1 Asia-Pacific (Singapore)

8.ap-southeast-2 Asia-Pacific (Syndey)

9.?? Gov Cloud

For the most part each region offers all the AWS
services. Different regions do have
different cost based on local costs, taxes, etc. As an example A Large EC2 instance cost
$0.34/hr in US East, but costs $0.40/hr in Tokyo. Also there is a unique location called Gov
Cloud that is only for local, state, and federal government uses http://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/
.

Within each facility are “Availability Zones”. “Each availability zone runs on its own
physically distinct, independent infrastructure, and is engineered to be highly
reliable” [1]. This gives you the
ability to stay within one region and still have completely redundant
facilities. The only potential risk is
if an entire region somehow has a natural catastrophe, think flood or other
large natural catastrophe.

Management Tools

Amazon AWS comes with several tools to build, deploy, and
manage your cloud. The simplest tool
they offer is the AWS Management Console.
The console is a simple web based tool that give you quick access to
most of the tools available from Amazon AWS.

There are also third party developers who have created web
based management tools for the Amazon cloud.
One, I particularly like for small business, is ylastic (http://ylastic.com/ [3]) it
cost $25/mo for basic and $50/mo for their plus subscription. For a small nimble business I have found it
to pay for itself several times over, and that’s coming from a guy who loves
using the command line tools.

There are more robust management tools out there like
RightScale’s offering (http://www.rightscale.com
[4]). RightScale helps you manage
multiple cloud offerings, amazon aws, Rackspace, and several more. They also allow you to manage your own internal
cloud. There offering is aimed more at
larger businesses or businesses with a more complex cloud infrastructure.

Amazon also provides command line tools which can be found
on this page http://aws.amazon.com/developertools/351
[7]. These are great for precise
repeatable deployment procedures. I have
used them a lot over the past year when creating my own Amazon AMI machines.

S3 (Simple Storage Service)

S3 is a great storage service from amazon. S3 provides a
“bucket” to store your data in. You can
place objects in S3 from 1 byte to 5 Terabytes in size. There is no limit to the number of objects
you can have in your bucket (unlimited storage). It uses standard REST services to
upload/download objects. S3 Provides
very basic security of objects. Objects
are URL accessible.

S3 provides 99.999999999% durability. It is also possible to get 99.99% durability
at a reduced cost.

S3 current costs (US)
12/14/2012

Standard

Reduced Redundancy

First 1 TB / month

$0.095 per GB

$0.076 per GB

Next 49 TB / month

$0.08 per GB

$0.064 per GB

Next 450 TB / month

$0.07 per GB

$0.056 per GB

Next 500 TB / month

$0.065 per GB

$0.052 per GB

Next 4000 TB / month

$0.06 per GB

$0.048 per GB

Over 5000 TB / month

$0.055 per GB

$0.037 per GB

There are also additional costs for Data transfer OUT, transfer
in are

free. In addition there is a cost of $0.01 per 10,000 GET
request and $0.01 per 1,000 PUT, COPY, POST, or LIST Requests.

EC2

Amazon Elastic Cloud computing allows you to rent a server
by the hour. There are several tools
within EC2 to help deploy and manage your servers. One key concept to follow with EC2 is to plan
that an instance will fail, and when it does, how are you going to work around that
failure.

Types

EC2 comes in several types.
They come in different sizes and in linux/windows flavors. Their CPU power is listed by EC2 Compute
Units, “One EC2 Compute Unit provides the equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2
GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor.” [8]
Here are the current types and
cost per hour on the East Coast Facility (N. Virginia) 12/14/2012.

Hourly Costs

Micro

ECU Unit

Memory

Ephermeral Hard drive

Linux price per hour

Windows price hour

Micro

t1.micro

1-2 ECU

613 MB

NA – EBS only

$0.02 /hr

$0.02 /hr

Standard

ECU Unit

Memory

Ephermeral Hard drive

Linux price per hour

Windows price hour

Smallm1.small

1 ECU

1.7 GB

160 GB

$0.065 /hr

$0.115 /hr

Mediumm1.medium

2 ECU

3.75 GB

410 GB

$0.13 /hr

$0.23 /hr

Largem1.large

4 ECU

7.5 GB

850 GB

$0.26 /hr

$0.46 /hr

Extra

Largem1.xlarge

8 ECU

15 GB

1690 GB

$0.52 /hr

$0.92 /hr

Second Generation

ECU Unit

Memory

Ephermeral Hard drive

Linux price per hour

Windows price hour

Extra

Large
m3.xlarge

13 ECU

15 GB

NA -EBS only

$0.58 /hr

$0.98 /hr

Double Extra

Large
m3.2xlarge

26 ECU

30 GB

NA -EBS only

$1.16 /hr

$1.96 /hr

Hi- Memory

ECU Unit

Memory

Ephermeral Hard drive

Linux price per hour

Windows price hour

Extra
large
m2.xlarge

6.5 ECU

17.1 GB

420 GB

$0.045 /hr

$0.057 /hr

Double Extra
Large
m2.2xlarge

13 ECU

34.2 GB

850 GB

$0.9 /hr

$1.14 /hr

Quadruple Extra
Large
m2.4xlarge

26 ECU

68.4 GB

1690 GB

$1.8 /hr

$2.28 /hr

Hi- CPU

ECU Unit

Memory

Ephermeral Hard drive

Linux price per hour

Windows price hour

Medium
c1.medium

5 ECU

1.7 GB

350 GB

$0.165 /hr

$0.285 /hr

Extra
Large
c1.xlarge

20 ECU

7 GB

1690 GB

$0.66 /hr

$1.14 /hr

Cluster- CPU

ECU Unit

Memory

Ephermeral Hard drive

Linux price per hour

Windows price hour

Quadruple Extra
Large
cc1.4xlarge

33.5 ECU

23 GB

1690 GB

$1.3 /hr

$1.61 /hr

Eight Extra
Large
cc2.8xlarge

88 ECU

60.5 GB

3370 GB

$2.4 /hr

$2.97 /hr

Cluster- GPU

ECU Unit

Memory

Ephermeral Hard drive

Linux price per hour

Windows price hour

Quad-Ex
Large
cg1.4xlarge

33.5 ECU

22 GB

1690 GB

$2.1 /hr

$2.6 /hr

High-IO

ECU Unit

Memory

Ephermeral Hard drive

Linux price per hour

Windows price hour

Quad-Ex
Large
hi1.4xlarge

35 ECU

60.5 GB

2048 GB (2x1024 SSD)

$3.1 /hr

$3.58 /hr

MONTHLY costs

I prefer to think of the monthly 24x7 costs of servers so I
calculated that with this chart
(price*24*31) 24 hours a day 31
days in a month.

Micro

ECU Unit

Memory

Ephermeral Hard drive

Linux
price per month

Windows
price month

Microt1.micro

1-2 ECU

613 MB

NA – EBS only

$14.88 /hr

$14.88 /hr

Standard

ECU Unit

Memory

Ephermeral Hard drive

Linux
price per month

Windows
price month

Smallm1.small

1 ECU

1.7 GB

160 GB

$48.36 /hr

$85.56 /hr

Mediumm1.medium

2 ECU

3.75 GB

410 GB

$96.72 /hr

$171.12 /hr

Largem1.large

4 ECU

7.5 GB

850 GB

$193.44 /hr

$342.24 /hr

Extra Largem1.xlarge

8 ECU

15 GB

1690 GB

$386.88 /hr

$684.48 /hr

Second Generation

ECU Unit

Memory

Ephermeral Hard drive

Linux
price per month

Windows
price month

Extra Large
m3.xlarge

13 ECU

15 GB

NA -EBS only

$431.52 /hr

$729.12 /hr

Double Extra
Large
m3.2xlarge

26 ECU

30 GB

NA -EBS only

$863.04 /hr

$1458.24 /hr

Hi- Memory

ECU Unit

Memory

Ephermeral Hard drive

Linux
price per month

Windows
price month

Extra
large
m2.xlarge

6.5 ECU

17.1 GB

420 GB

$334.8 /hr

$424.08 /hr

Double Extra
Large
m2.2xlarge

13 ECU

34.2 GB

850 GB

$669.6 /hr

$848.16 /hr

Quadruple Extra
Large
m2.4xlarge

26 ECU

68.4 GB

1690 GB

$1339.2 /hr

$1696.32 /hr

Hi- CPU

ECU Unit

Memory

Ephermeral Hard drive

Linux
price per month

Windows
price month

Medium
c1.medium

5 ECU

1.7 GB

350 GB

$122.76 /hr

$212.04 /hr

Extra
Large
c1.xlarge

20 ECU

7 GB

1690 GB

$491.04 /hr

$848.16 /hr

Cluster- CPU

ECU Unit

Memory

Ephermeral Hard drive

Linux
price per month

Windows
price month

Quadruple Extra
Large
cc1.4xlarge

33.5 ECU

23 GB

1690 GB

$967.2 /hr

$1197.84 /hr

Eight Extra
Large
cc2.8xlarge

88 ECU

60.5 GB

3370 GB

$1785.6 /hr

$2209.68 /hr

Cluster- GPU

ECU Unit

Memory

Ephermeral Hard drive

Linux
price per month

Windows
price month

Quad-Ex
Large
cg1.4xlarge

33.5 ECU

22 GB

1690 GB

$1562.4 /hr

$1934.4 /hr

High-IO

ECU Unit

Memory

Ephermeral Hard drive

Linux
price per month

Windows
price month

Quad-Ex
Large
hi1.4xlarge

35 ECU

60.5 GB

2048 GB (2x1024 SSD)

$2306.4 /hr

$2663.52 /hr

Yearly Rates

You can also pay a one-time fee for a “Reserved”
instance. A reserved instance does two
things, it guarantees you a spot for
your server (should a zone get full… a rare thing) and it also lowers your
hourly charge for running the server.

There are a few different options for the upfront costs,
light medium and Heavy. One year or
three year contract. For these
calculations I assume a heavy usage (24x7) and only a 1 year contract.

I am also only going to go over the linux prices here

Micro

upfront

Linux price per hour

Linux price per month

Linux price per Year

Average Monthly
costs

Total Savings

Microt1.micro

$ 62

$ 0.005

$
3.72

$ 105.8

$ 8.82

$69.40
39.6%

First Generation

upfront

Linux price per hour

Linux price per month

Linux price per Year

Average Monthly
costs

Total Savings

Smallm1.small

$ 195

$ 0.016

$
11.9

$ 335.16

$ 27.93

$234.24 41.1%

Mediumm1.medium

$ 390

$ 0.032

$
23.81

$ 670.32

$ 55.86

$468.48 41.1%

Largem1.large

$ 780

$ 0.064

$
47.62

$ 1340.64

$ 111.72

$936.96 41.1%

Extra Largem1.xlarge

$ 1560

$ 0.128

$
95.23

$ 2681.28

$ 223.44

$1,873.92 41.1%

Second Generation

upfront

Linux price per hour

Linux price per month

Linux price per Year

Average Monthly
costs

Total Savings

Extra Large
m3.xlarge

$ 1716

$ 0.141

$
104.9

$ 2951.16

$ 245.93

$2,129.64 41.9%

Double Extra Large
m3.2xlarge

$ 3432

$ 0.282

$
209.81

$ 5902.32

$ 491.86

$4,259.28 41.9%

Hi- Memory

upfront

Linux price per hour

Linux price per month

Linux price per Year

Average Monthly
costs

Total Savings

Extra
large
m2.xlarge

$ 1030

$ 0.088

$
65.47

$ 1800.88

$ 150.07

$2,141.12 54.3%

Double Extra
Large
m2.2xlarge

$ 2060

$ 0.176

$
130.94

$ 3601.76

$ 300.15

$4,282.24 54.3%

Quadruple Extra
Large
m2.4xlarge

$ 4120

$ 0.352

$
261.89

$ 7203.52

$ 600.29

$8,564.48 54.3%

Hi- CPU

upfront

Linux price per hour

Linux price per month

Linux price per Year

Average Monthly
costs

Total Savings

Medium
c1.medium

$ 500

$ 0.04

$
29.76

$ 850.4

$ 70.87

$595.00 41.2%

Extra
Large
c1.xlarge

$ 2000

$ 0.16

$
119.04

$ 3401.6

$ 283.47

$2,380.00 41.2%

Cluster- CPU

upfront

Linux price per hour

Linux price per month

Linux price per Year

Average Monthly
costs

Total Savings

Quadruple Extra
Large
cc1.4xlarge

$ 4060

$ 0.297

$220.97

$ 6661.72

$ 555.14

$4,726.28 41.5%

Eight Extra
Large
cc2.8xlarge

$ 5000

$ 0.361

$
268.58

$ 8162.36

$ 680.2

$12,861.64 61.2%

Cluster- GPU

upfront

Linux price per hour

Linux price per month

Linux price per Year

Average Monthly
costs

Total Savings

Quad-Ex
Large
cg1.4xlarge

$ 6830

$ 0.494

$367.54

$ 11157.44

$ 929.79

$7,238.56 39.3%

High-IO

upfront

Linux price per hour

Linux price per month

Linux price per Year

Average Monthly
costs

Total Savings

Quad-Ex
Large
hi1.4xlarge

$ 7280

$ 0.621

$462.02

$12,719.96

$ 1,060

$14,436.04 53.2%

AMI

Each EC2 is created from an AMI (Amazon Machine Image). There are several publicly available AMI’s
available on the AWS service. Ubuntu,
Windows, and other prefabricated images are available, some available at an
additional cost per hour. You can also
create your own AMI images from your own customized machines. You can keep your AMI images private or share
with the community at large.

Ephemeral Disk

EC2 machine instances can use two different kinds of virtual
disk Ephemeral and EBS. Ephemeral Volumes
are automatically allocated to an EC2 instance, with the exception of a
t1.micro instance type. An Ephemeral
Volume is a virtual hard drive that is attached to an EC2 instance. It varies in size based on the type of EC2
instance it is attached to. If an EC2
instance is terminated the Ephemeral Disk will no longer exists and any data on
it will be lost. If a server is simply
rebooted or shut down, the data on the Ephemeral Disk will stay intact. Ephemeral disk should not be used for
persisting data.

EBS

Elastic Block Storage is other main type of virtual disk
available to EC2 instances. EBS volumes
can persist if an EC2 instance is terminated.
EBS volumes can be dismounted from one EC2 instance and mounted onto
another. EBS volumes can be created from
1 GB to 1 TB in size. EBS volumes are
durable, they are replicated within the same availability zone giving a between
0.1% - 0.5% annual failure rate. Back
up snapshots can be taken of an EBS volume. Snapshots are stored in S3 storage for maximum
durability.

Currently it costs $0.10 per GB of EBS storage

Snapshots

Snapshots in time can be made of your EBS volumes. Snapshots are stored in S3 storage. The costs is $0.095 per GB-month. Snapshots are incremental, “If you have a
device with 100 GBs of data, but only 5 GBs of data has changed since your last
snapshot, only the 5 additional GBs of snapshot data will be stored back to
Amazon S3” [9].

Elastic IP

Every AWS account is allowed 5 Elastic IP addresses by
default. You can ask for more, but will
most likely be turned down unless you have good reason. These are IPv4 addresses. They can be assigned to running instances of
your EC2. They are free to use, as long
as they are attached to an EC2 instance if they are not attached they cost
$0.005/ hr ($3.72mo). This is meant to curb abuse of holding onto
IP addresses which are not attached to an EC2 instance. The first 100 remaps of an elastic IP are
free per month after that they are $0.10 per address remap.

Elastic Load Balancers

An elastic load balancer allows you to distribute incoming
traffic to multiple EC2 instances. There
are a lot of interesting customizations you can do with this, but in simple
terms it’s just distributing the traffic.
Elastic Load Balancer costs $ 0.025 per/hr and $ 0.008 per GB. So if you run it all month and have 200 GB of
data go through it the ELB will cost you $20.20.

Security

When an EC2 instance is created it is assigned to a security
group. An EC2 instance cannot have
another security group assigned to it.
A security group can be updated at any time and the changes are instantly
available on all EC2 instances using that security group. With a security group you can open and close
ports and allow certain IP addresses access to ports.

An example would be only letting systems from the IP address
212.100.0.1 access to port 212.

Monitoring (CloudWatch)

Basic monitoring is free from AWS. Basic monitoring gives a metric data
frequency of 5 minutes. For $3.50 per
instance per month you can get a 1 minute frequency. In addition you can make custom metrics and
feed them into CloudWatch for $0.50 per metric per month.

RDS

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) is a relational
database as a service. Currently it
comes in two flavors MySQl, Oracle and SQL Server. Amazon runs the database on an EC2 instance
but does not give you access directly to that instance rather it provides other
tools to manage the DB. Here are some
of the services RDS provides

·Ability to increase DB (hard drive) size on the
fly

·Scale database up or down with minimum, in some
case, no downtime.

·Automatic backups. Enables point in time recovery.

·Read replicate databases

·Multi-zone configuration for auto failover

·Monitoring

Pricing updated 12/14/2012

I will only go over MySQL and Oracle Prices

This does not include the costs of disk space which costs

$0.10 /GB per month.

There is also a provisioned IOPS RDS, which I will not go
over here yet….

Hourly Costs

Micro

ECU Unit

Memory

MySQL

Oracle

Microt1.micro

1-2 ECU

630 MB

$0.025 /hr

$0.04 /hr

First Generation

ECU Unit

Memory

MySQL

Oracle

Smallm1.small

1 ECU

1.7 GB

$0.09 /hr

$0.14 /hr

Mediumm1.medium

2 ECU

3.75 GB

$0.18 /hr

$0.28 /hr

Largem1.large

4 ECU

7.5 GB

$0.365 /hr

$0.565 /hr

Extra Largem1.xlarge

8 ECU

15 GB

$0.73 /hr

$1.13 /hr

Hi- Memory

ECU Unit

Memory

MySQL

Oracle

Extra
large
m2.xlarge

6.5 ECU

17.1 GB

$0.585 /hr

$0.785 /hr

Double Extra
Large
m2.2xlarge

13 ECU

34.2 GB

$1.17 /hr

$1.57 /hr

Quadruple Extra
Large
m2.4xlarge

26 ECU

68.4 GB

$2.34 /hr

$3.14 /hr

Costs per month

Micro

ECU Unit

Memory

MySQL

Oracle

Microt1.micro

1-2 ECU

630 MB

$18.6 /hr

$29.76 /hr

First Generation

ECU Unit

Memory

MySQL

Oracle

Smallm1.small

1 ECU

1.7 GB

$66.96 /hr

$104.16 /hr

Mediumm1.medium

2 ECU

3.75 GB

$133.92 /hr

$208.32 /hr

Largem1.large

4 ECU

7.5 GB

$271.56 /hr

$420.36 /hr

Extra Largem1.xlarge

8 ECU

15 GB

$543.12 /hr

$840.72 /hr

Hi- Memory

ECU Unit

Memory

MySQL

Oracle

Extra
large
m2.xlarge

6.5 ECU

17.1 GB

$435.24 /hr

$584.04 /hr

Double Extra
Large
m2.2xlarge

13 ECU

34.2 GB

$870.48 /hr

$1168.08 /hr

Quadruple Extra
Large
m2.4xlarge

26 ECU

68.4 GB

$1740.96 /hr

$2336.16 /hr

Costs per Year

You can also pay a one-time fee for a “Reserved”
instance. A reserved instance does two
things, it guarantees you a spot for
your server (should a zone get full… a rare thing) and it also lowers your
hourly charge for running the server.

There are a few different options for the upfront costs,
light medium and Heavy. One year or
three year contract. For these
calculations I assume a heavy usage (24x7) and only a 1 year contract.

I am also only going to go over the MySQL prices

Micro

upfront

MySQL price per hour

MySQL price per month

MySQL price per Year

Average Monthly
costs

Total Savings

Microt1.micro

$ 62

$ 0.008

$
5.95

$ 132.08

$ 11.01

$86.92
39.7%

First Generation

upfront

MySQL price per hour

MySQL price per month

MySQL price per Year

Average Monthly
costs

Total Savings

Smallm1.small

$ 195

$ 0.027

$
20.09

$ 431.52

$ 35.96

$356.88 45.3%

Mediumm1.medium

$ 390

$ 0.055

$
40.92

$ 871.8

$ 72.65

$705.00 44.7%

Largem1.large

$ 780

$ 0.11

$
81.84

$ 1743.6

$ 145.3

$1,453.80 45.5%

Extra Largem1.xlarge

$ 1560

$ 0.22

$
163.68

$ 3487.2

$ 290.6

$2,907.60 45.5%

Hi- Memory

upfront

MySQL price per hour

MySQL price per month

MySQL price per Year

Average Monthly
costs

Total Savings

Extra
large
m2.xlarge

$ 1030

$ 0.15

$
111.6

$ 2344

$ 195.33

$2,780.60 54.3%

Double Extra
Large
m2.2xlarge

$ 2060

$ 0.3

$
223.2

$ 4688

$ 390.67

$5,561.20 54.3%

Quadruple Extra
Large
m2.4xlarge

$ 4120

$ 0.6

$
446.4

$ 9376

$ 781.33

$11,122.40 54.3%

Multi Zone Costs

Micro

ECU Unit

Memory

MySQL

Oracle

Microt1.micro

1-2 ECU

630 MB

$0.05 /hr

$0.08 /hr

First Generation

ECU Unit

Memory

MySQL

Oracle

Smallm1.small

1 ECU

1.7 GB

$0.18 /hr

$0.28 /hr

Mediumm1.medium

2 ECU

3.75 GB

$0.36 /hr

$0.56 /hr

Largem1.large

4 ECU

7.5 GB

$0.73 /hr

$1.13 /hr

Extra Largem1.xlarge

8 ECU

15 GB

$1.46 /hr

$2.26 /hr

Hi- Memory

ECU Unit

Memory

MySQL

Oracle

Extra
large
m2.xlarge

6.5 ECU

17.1 GB

$1.17 /hr

$1.57 /hr

Double Extra
Large
m2.2xlarge

13 ECU

34.2 GB

$2.34 /hr

$3.14 /hr

Quadruple Extra
Large
m2.4xlarge

26 ECU

68.4 GB

$4.68 /hr

$6.28 /hr

Multi Zone Per month

Micro

ECU Unit

Memory

MySQL

Oracle

Microt1.micro

1-2 ECU

630 MB

$37.2 /hr

$59.52 /hr

First Generation

ECU Unit

Memory

MySQL

Oracle

Smallm1.small

1 ECU

1.7 GB

$133.92 /hr

$208.32 /hr

Mediumm1.medium

2 ECU

3.75 GB

$267.84 /hr

$416.64 /hr

Largem1.large

4 ECU

7.5 GB

$543.12 /hr

$840.72 /hr

Extra Largem1.xlarge

8 ECU

15 GB

$1086.24 /hr

$1681.44 /hr

Hi- Memory

ECU Unit

Memory

MySQL

Oracle

Extra
large
m2.xlarge

6.5 ECU

17.1 GB

$870.48 /hr

$1168.08 /hr

Double Extra
Large
m2.2xlarge

13 ECU

34.2 GB

$1740.96 /hr

$2336.16 /hr

Quadruple Extra
Large
m2.4xlarge

26 ECU

68.4 GB

$3481.92 /hr

$4672.32 /hr

Multi Zone Per year

You can also pay a one-time fee for a “Reserved”
instance. A reserved instance does two
things, it guarantees you a spot for
your server (should a zone get full… a rare thing) and it also lowers your
hourly charge for running the server.

There are a few different options for the upfront costs,
light medium and Heavy. One year or
three year contract. For these
calculations I assume a heavy usage (24x7) and only a 1 year contract.

Route53 is DNS service from Amazon. I like it a lot it’s very fast and convenient
for updating DNS records. Price is
fairly low cost is $0.50 per domain for the first 25 domains then $0.10 for
each additional domain. Also it costs
$0.50 per million queries which is prorated.

DynamoDB (beta)

Dynamo DB is a product that just came out and is currently
in usable beta. It’s a NoSQL service
from Amazon AWS. Amazon has put
together a great tutorial at https://www.youtube.com/embed/oz-7wJJ9HZ0?rel=0
[10]. It handles all the infrastructure
of the NoSQL database. All you have to
do is set the write /sec and read/sec.
It runs on SSD drives.

Read/write unit is 1KB in size. Write throughput costs $0.01 per hour for
every 10 units of write capacity and $0.01 per hour for every 50 units of read
capacity. Data storage is $1.00 per
GB-month. Data transfer in is free, data
transfer out is $0.120 per GB up to 10TB then it gets cheaper.

Storage Gateway (beta)

This is another product in beta. It provides incremental backups of local
machines to the Amazon AWS cloud. It
uses an on-site virtual machine to co-ordinate data back and forth give you the
ability to back up your local systems on an incremental basis, to S3 storage.